Site:       Hazel Bazemore County Park
            Corpus Christi, Nueces County, TX
            27 deg. 51.936"
            97 deg. 38.560"
            Site manned 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Central Standard time, Aug 15-Nov 15
Counters:   Joel Simon (jsimon@electrotex.com) and
            Glenn Swartz (glennswartz@worldnet.att.net)
Reports:    Patty Beasley (pbeasley@electrotex.com)
Sponsors:   Hawk Watch International
            Hawk Migration Association of North America
            Audubon Outdoor Club of Corpus Christi
            Hazel Bazemore County Park
            H.E. Butt, Inc.
            Central Power & Light Company

Report Date:  August 31, 1998

Glenn reports raptor numbers today were better, but the birds were high and
fast; no waiting around today. They must've seen that system souping up in
the Bay of Campeche.

Well, we close August slightly ahead of fall 1997's August numbers of 2,525
raptors. Not bad. We anticipate a good September, all other things being
equal.

Before we go to the numbers, a quick note about yesterday's post: I goofed
and somehow left the previous day's tally up, and then apparently added in
the big two for yesterday; sorry 'bout that. The archive pages have been
corrected.

Species                 Day     Season
Osprey                  1       5
Swallow-tailed Kite     0       5
Mississippi Kite        56      2664
Cooper's Hawk           0       2
Red-shouldered Hawk     0       11
Broad-winged Hawk       1       51
Swainson's Hawk         3       63
White-tailed Hawk       0       1
Red-tailed Hawk         2       24
American Kestrel        0       2
Unidentified Buteo      0       1
Unidentified Raptors    0       47
Total                   63      2876
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Daily reports for the various Texas hawk watches (including non-raptor day
bird lists for the Hazel Bazemore Hawk Watch) are archived on the Texas
Hawk Watch pages of the Audubon Outdoor Club of Corpus Christi's web site at:
 

        http://www.electrotex.com/aoc/
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Non-raptor day birds (ahhh, here come those migrants; more are making their
way through!)

American White Pelican 1
Anhinga 292
Snowy Egret 8
Wood Stork 20
Cinnamon Teal 1 Female
Black Vulture 4
Turkey Vulture 2
Killdeer 3
Black-necked Stilt 3
Lesser Yellowlegs
Upland Sandpiper 4
Laughing Gull 1
White-winged Dove 4
Mourning Dove 3
Inca Dove 12
Common Ground-dove 4
White-tipped Dove 1
Greater Roadrunner 1
Common Nighthawk 4
Chimney Swift 2
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 2
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 1
Great Kiskadee 2
Couch's Kingbird 1
Eastern Kingbird 3
Tree Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 14
Tufted Titmouse 1
Carolina Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
Northern Mockingbird 4
Loggerhead Shrike 1
European Starling 5
White-eyed Vireo 1
Yellow Warbler 2
Yellow-breasted Chat 3
Northern Cardinal 7
Dickcissel 1
Olive Sparrow 1
Great-tailed Grackle 3
Bronzed Cowbird 5
Orchard Oriole 2
Baltimore Oriole 5
Total 52